No. 10,106 in Russian
баскетболисты
Basketball players.
In a sentence
В команде пять баскетболистов.
There are five basketball players in the team.
In this sentence, the word 'баскетболистов' is used in the genitive plural, which indicates possession or a fixed number of individuals.
Юные баскетболисты тренируются каждый день.
Young basketball players train every day.
Here, 'баскетболисты' is used in the nominative plural, signifying the subject of the sentence who is performing the action.
Все баскетболисты пришли на соревнование.
All the basketball players came to the tournament.
In this context, 'баскетболисты' is again in the nominative plural, describing a group as the subject of the action described.
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